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Turkey to build DNA databank for unknown bodies
Turkeyâs Justice and Interior Ministries have joined forces to build a DNA databank to keep track of unidentified dead bodies. The implementation will ease tracking missing persons and help their relatives avoid visiting morgues in each case of a body being found.
Heroin suspects, also on Lagarde list, to testify
Five of a total 12 people arrested over the biggest drug bust ever made in Greece are due to testify before an Athens prosecutor on Tuesday.
Civil service overhaul tests coalition
Six hundred university administrative staff who were suspended last year as part of a civil service mobility scheme are set to get their jobs back after an agreement between Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and his coalition partner Evangelos Venizelos late on Sunday resolved a dispute between two ministries over the number of employees who should be rehired.
Greece-based Star Bulk set to buy Oceanbulk companies
Star Bulk Carriers Corp said it would buy Oceanbulk Shipping LLC and Oceanbulk Carriers LLC in an all-stock deal to create the largest US-listed dry-bulk shipper.
Star Bulk is issuing 54.104 million new shares to buy the Oceanbulk companies, valuing the deal at about $653 million based on Star Bulks Friday close of $12.07.
Energy tops talks agenda between Azeris and Greeks
Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and visiting Azeri President Ilham Aliyev on Monday discussed two major investments that promise to draw much-needed revenue the privatization of Greeces gas transmission network (DESFA) and the construction of the Trans Adriatic Gas Pipeline (TAP), that would cross Greece.
Cyprus could supply natural gas to Bulgaria
Bulgarias foreign minister said Cyprus could supply his country and other Central European nations with natural gas to lessen the regions heavy dependence on Russian deliveries.
Missing child found in forest after 16-hour search
A four-year-old boy was found 16 hours after he went missing in a forested area in Istanbulâs Sarıyer district, where his family was picnicking.
Berlin denies espionage allegations
Berlin has denied media reports that the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) had been monitoring online activity in Greece, among other countries.
Speaking to journalists on Monday, Germanys deputy government spokesman Georg Streiter said that although Greece was mentioned in internal BND documents, the country itself was not being monitored.
Tougher stance taken over falsely claimed pensions of deceased
Greeces main social security fund, IKA, on Monday ordered its local branch directors to take legal action against any individual found to be claiming the pension of a deceased member of the fund.
Police ‘remove students’ ear piercing with pliers’
A university student candidate has claimed that police forcefully removed her ear piercing with pliers before an exam in Istanbul on June 15.
Nearly 9,000 apply for refugee status in Greece
Asylum application in Greece have climbed to nearly 9,000 over the past 12 months, while 926 people were granted refugee status on their first application, authorities said on Monday.
First group of suspects in attack on gold mine facilities released
Six of 22 people being charged with a string of criminal offenses in connection with an arson attack on the headquarters of a mining company in northern Greece were granted release by the magistrate investigating the case on Monday.
Probe launched into doctors with suspicious consultation quotas
The National Organization for Healthcare Provision (EOPYY) is investigating complaints against doctors allegedly claiming to have filled their monthly consultation quotas within the first days of the month.
Three arrested in Athens over energy investment scam
Police have arrested three suspects, aged 41, 45 and 47, and are seeking another three in connection with a scam run by individuals claiming to represent a company investing in photovoltaic energy and asking for start-up capital.
The gang, which was active in Athens, is believed to have made more than 600,000 euros in the phoney investment scheme from at least 17 people.
High-quality flood defence through joint efforts
BELGRADE - The catastrophic floods which recently hit the region came as a warning to the countries along the course of the Sava River that they need to invest joint efforts to find a high-quality solutions concerning flood defence mechanisms, regional ministers agreed at the meeting in Belgrade on Monday.